Our damaged democracy : we the people must act

Main Author: Califano, Joseph A., Jr., 1931- (Author)
Published: New York: Touchstone, 2018.
Edition:First Touchstone hardcover edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Potus the powerful
  • Enhancing potus power
  • Potus the commander-in-chief
  • Potus the legislator
  • The four pillars of potus power
  • The crippled congress
  • The grip of the gerrymander
  • Pay to play congress
  • Congressional chaos
  • Cutting its nose to spite its face
  • Where war is not war
  • The politicized court
  • Political labor pains
  • Political party polarization
  • The subject states and cities
  • Money makes the rules
  • The game changers
  • Presidential preemption and prerogatives
  • Money: the root of political evil
  • Day of political infamy
  • The money game
  • Money opens doors and ears
  • States, judges and think tanks in the political money mix
  • American fault lines
  • The media fault line
  • Political party, racial, and cultural fault lines
  • The partisanship fault line
  • Income and education inequality fault lines
  • Single issue fault line
  • Military-civilian fault line
  • We the people
  • We the people must act